git log shows the current HEAD and its ancestry. That is, it prints the commit HEAD points to, then its parent, its parent, and so on. It traverses back through the repo’s ancestry, by recursively looking up each commit’s parent. (In practice, some commits have more than one parent. To see a more representative log, … Read more
Use the –reverse option: git log –reverse
Try: git log –reflog which lists all git commits by pretending that all objects mentioned by reflogs (git reflog) are listed on the command line as <commit>.
Thanks John Bartholomew! The answer is to specify the time, e.g. git log –after=”2013-11-12 00:00″ –before=”2013-11-12 23:59″
git log remotename/branchname Will display the log of a given remote branch in that repository, but only the logs that you have “fetched” from their repository to your personal “copy” of the remote repository. Remember that your clone of the repository will update its state of any remote branches only by doing git fetch. You … Read more
Here’s simpler, “pure Git” way to do it, with no pipeline needed: git log –diff-filter=A — foo.js Check the documentation. You can do the same thing for Deleted, Modified, etc. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log#Documentation/git-log.txt—diff-filterACDMRTUXB82308203 I have a handy alias for this, because I always forget it: git config –global alias.whatadded ‘log –diff-filter=A’ This makes it as simple as: … Read more
You can easily do that with git log master..branch-X That will show you commits that branch-X has but master doesn’t.
Assuming that your branch was created off of master, then while in the branch (that is, you have the branch checked out): git cherry -v master or git log master.. If you are not in the branch, then you can add the branch name to the “git log” command, like this: git log master..branchname If … Read more
Using Commit Ranges with Git Log When you’re using commit ranges like .. and … with git log, the difference between them is that, for branches A and B, git log A..B will show you all of the commits that B has that A doesn’t have, while git log A…B will show you both the … Read more
To search the commit log (across all branches) for the given text: git log –all –grep=’Build 0051′ To search the actual content of commits through a repo’s history, use: git grep ‘Build 0051’ $(git rev-list –all) to show all instances of the given text, the containing file name, and the commit sha1. Finally, as a … Read more